When you do portaling, do you have to portal your whole map?? or just an area with bad fps?

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You generally just do it in the area's with bad FPS but I'd say its down to how you've made your map.
The easiest thing to do is portal off your buildings and house then playing it in devmap with /r_drawtris 1 and seeing what the game is drawing in the bad fps areas

edited on Oct. 18, 2007 02:35 pm by Raaaaa

I can't believe I clicked on this topic thinking it was about a Portal mod for CoD, and not portalling a CoD map. Wow.

Basically wherever there is some large piece of geometry that will block the view of another area you should portal. Buildings with their doors and windows, turns in hallways, and stuff like that sure. It's the "outdoor" portalling that is harder and takes more experimentation.

Thansk for your replies

Yer outdorr portaling isa lot harder :P

I relised why mine wernt working

i had portal surfaces up against walls :D

For places like that do i need portal no draw?

Filbert writes...

hmmm... portal mod... sounds interesting
wat ya mean?

.KiLL3R. writes...

oooooooohhhh, god...... yet another mod idea for kill3r

kill3r, have you ever not had an idea? just curious

but seriously, I got a small q of my own...
could you do portals in floors? like one portal from 0x-100x and 100x-200x and so on?

edited on Oct. 18, 2007 05:12 pm by 94sniper

Guys can we stay on topic?

Anyway, for your qestion. You should use portal Caulk on all sides of your portal EXEPT the side with the portal. Try looking at this tutorial for outdoor portaling. Here

yer had been folowing tht guide



yer what do you mean by a portal mod?